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14. We do.

Reply to Buckeyeblue (Reply #11)

Fri Jan 9, 2026, 11:51 PM

Jan 9

The land line has been in our German house since it was built (not by us) in 1973. We got a new number, obviously, but never ditched the land line. We did use the phone before there were cell phones, believe it or not. The whole smoke signal routine never really caught on in Germany.

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